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TriCaster’s live production features are all available from its unique Live Desktop, which in many ways mimics familiar production equipment. However, the Live Desktop provides far more functionality than similar single-purpose devices, all in one integrated environment.
The various features, controls and modules comprising TriCaster’s Live Desktop are arranged in horizontal bands, as seen in Figure 2.
The top-most band contains TriCaster’s convenient and powerful Dashboard.
The area just below the Dashboard is *normally devoted to a multi-pane monitoring display, providing source and output views.
* This area can be re-sized, and even completely hidden when outboard monitoring is in use; or the display can be customized to complement the external Multiview or for numerous other purposes.
The central Live Control section is home to the Switcher, Transition, DSKs (overlay channels) and M/E controls (M/E panels can be minimized, and are hidden from view in Figure 2).
The bottom third of the Live Desktop holds tabbed control modules, including Media Players (DDRs and Graphics players. plus a Sound player) and Buffers, PTZ camera controls and the Audio Mixer.